Chapter 920 Yiyi and Xiaobao (First Update)
After Yuan Baolin returned to her room, her younger sister Yuan Tong came in.
Her younger sister took her arm and whispered, "Sister, do you really agree to this marriage?"
Yuan Baolin withdrew her hand, lay down on the chaise lounge, and leisurely flipped through the half-read storybook: "Hmm."
The younger sister sat down next to her in surprise: "But sister, didn't you say you would never get married in this lifetime?"
Yuan Baolin sighed, "My grandmother is threatening to kill herself, what can I do?"
Yuan Tong said "Oh," and then, holding her handkerchief, said, "Speaking of which, he actually found a phoenix for you, which means he's serious about you, sister."
Yuan Baolin turned a page and continued reading the storybook, saying indifferently, "It wasn't him who found it."
Yuan Tong asked in confusion, "How does your sister know it wasn't him who hired them?"
Yuan Baolin said calmly, "I just know."
Yuan Tong frowned, stood up and said, "Then I'll go tell Grandfather!"
"Wait a minute." Yuan Baolin put down the storybook, looked at her, and said casually, "Don't ruin this marriage. I want to marry him."
Yuan Tong frowned and said, "Sister! There are plenty of good men in the world, why do you want a dishonest one?"
Yuan Baolin said helplessly, "You don't understand."
Yuan Tong pouted and tugged at her handkerchief: "I don't understand. I only know that once my sister gets married, I'll be next soon. From now on, the Yuan family will become my maternal family. I won't be able to see my parents every day, nor will I be able to talk to my sister like this."
Yuan Baolin continued reading the storybook.
Suddenly realizing something, Yuan Tong gasped, "If my sister marries Prince Gu, wouldn't I be related to that... giant hornet?"
Yuan Baolin: "What hornet?"
Yuan Tong stomped her foot: "His younger brother! That rude and annoying brat!"
Yuan Baolin turned a page of the book: "Oh, is there such a person? I forgot."
Gu Chengfeng, who had been completely forgotten by his sister-in-law: "..."
...
After leaving the palace, Gu Jiao went to Zhuque Street to visit Princess Xinyang and Shangguan Qing.
Shangguan Qing is recovering well; the remaining toxins in his body have been almost completely cleared. He should be able to stop taking the medicine after one last month. He should be able to pay more attention to his diet in the future, and there shouldn't be any major problems.
The three sat in Princess Xinyang's room, and Gu Jiao glanced around casually.
Princess Xinyang said calmly, "Don't look anymore, Aheng isn't here."
Shangguan Qing sat to the right of his princess mother, picked up a book from the table to cover his left cheek, and whispered to Gu Jiao, "Knowing you were coming, I specially sent you away so that you two wouldn't meet before the wedding."
Gu Jiao, with a resentful look: Oh.
Yu Ya'er held the sleeping Gu Xiaobao in her arms as they cooled off in the courtyard, while Yu Jin fanned Xiaobao from the side.
Little Yiyi wasn't asleep yet. She lay in her cradle, playing with her toes and occasionally making soft "uh-huh" and "ah-ah" sounds.
She was a baby with a very strong presence, never quiet as long as she was awake, almost the opposite of Gu Xiaobao, who was too lazy to even cry.
After Yao gave birth to Gu Xiaobao, the family acted as if no child had been born.
Princess Xinyang gave birth to Xiao Yiyi, and the family was as if they had twins.
Gu Jiao came to the cradle and teased her.
She stopped grabbing her toes, opened her jewel-like eyes wide, and stared at Gu Jiao without blinking.
She's about to grow her first tooth, and she's been drooling a lot lately.
Gu Jiao remembered that Gu Xiaobao wasn't this chubby when she was five months old. Her little arms were like sections of lotus root, white and tender, and she wanted to pinch them.
"Can I squeeze it?" Gu Jiao asked Shangguan Qing, who had also come to the cradle.
Shangguan Qing said seriously, "Of course not! Children have delicate skin, what if you hurt them!"
After saying that, he glanced at the princess sitting at the coffee table drinking tea, blocked her view with his body, and whispered to Gu Jiao in a second, "Pinch it however you like."
Little Yiyi, who was suddenly sold off by her brother: "...?!"
Gu Jiao pinched and pinched again.
Hmm, it feels really good.
Little Yiyi is a lively baby who loves to laugh and cry. If her brothers pinch her like that, she would cry loudly and complain to her mother.
But today, she gave her sister-in-law plenty of face.
After Gu Jiao finished pinching her little arm, she raised her little feet high, as if asking a question.
Here, take my foot, wanna squeeze it?
Two younger children played with Yiyi while Princess Xinyang went to do her own thing.
When only the two of them were left in the room, Shangguan Qing asked Gu Jiao, "By the way, how is my mother?"
Gu Jiao paused in squeezing Xiao Yiyi's hand, then turned her head and gave him a strange look: "Why didn't you ask just now?"
Shangguan Qing coughed lightly and said, "The princess was here just now, and I was just afraid she would be jealous."
Gu Jiao: "You're quite knowledgeable."
Shangguan Qing raised an eyebrow and said, "Of course! Is everyone like that bookish younger brother, so clueless about women?"
Gu Jiao said honestly, "But I think he understands both mothers better than you do."
Shangguan Qing's face darkened. This was too much to ask.
Gu Jiao took out a folded letter from her purse and handed it to him: "A letter from Her Majesty the Empress. See for yourself how she is doing."
Shangguan Qing snatched the letter, glanced at Gu Jiao sideways, and snorted coldly, "And you're talking about me? Why didn't you take out the letter just now!"
Gu Jiao said without changing her expression, "I forgot."
Shangguan Qing: "Hehe."
Gu Jiao was talking to Shangguan Qing, ignoring Xiao Yiyi in the cradle. Xiao Yiyi tugged at Gu Jiao's hand in dissatisfaction.
It's as if it's saying: Don't talk to that stinky older brother, talk to me.
Gu Jiao smiled and picked up Xiao Yiyi.
Gu Xiaobao likes to eat milk skin. Gu Jiao held him all day, and her body also smelled faintly of milk.
When Xiao Yiyi smelled the familiar scent, she grabbed Gu Jiao's clothes with her chubby little hands and buried her head in Gu Jiao's arms.
Gu Jiao: "???"
...
Gu Jiao thought that Xiao Yiyi was hungry, so she carried her to the flower room and gave her to Princess Xinyang.
Little Yiyi was completely bewildered when she was suddenly back in her mother's arms.
That was her instinctive reaction; she hadn't had enough fun with her sister-in-law yet!
Then her mother pulled her into her arms.
Okay, with milk, everything is fine.
Little Yiyi started eating noisily, completely forgetting about her sister-in-law.
Shangguan Yan wrote three letters in total: two to her two brothers and one to Princess Xinyang.
The letter to the two brothers mainly described the current situation of the Yan Kingdom, mentioned her ascension to the throne, chatted about some family matters, and also explained that due to the recent great war, the new emperor's ascension, and the need to rectify the ten major families, the court was in a state of great activity, and she was unable to attend Xiao Heng and Gu Jiao's wedding, for which she felt deeply apologetic.
In truth, everyone knew that the situation in Yan was not as breezy as she made it sound; the power of the ten major families alone was enough to give her a headache for a while.
There was another reason why she didn't attend the wedding: she was worried that Princess Xinyang didn't want to see her.
In the study, Princess Xinyang sighed, "It's all in the past now, I've let it go."
Gu Jiao left, leaving only the mother and her two children in the house.
Little Yiyi in her arms stared at her with wide eyes, as if trying to understand what was wrong with her mother.
Shangguan Qing shook his head and said, "I'm afraid you'll have to tell her yourself, otherwise, given my mother's personality, she'll never get over this."
Princess Xinyang suddenly asked, "When do you plan to go back?"
Shangguan Qing's eyes widened: "What? Mother, are you kicking me out?"
Princess Xinyang looked at her daughter in her arms and said, "You two brothers are with me. Your mother will be lonely by herself."
Shangguan Qing raised an eyebrow and said, "Then why shouldn't it be the younger brother going back?"
Princess Xinyang looked up at him and asked, "Your brother found a wife from the Zhao Kingdom, do you also want to find a wife from the Zhao Kingdom?"
Shangguan Qing said in a serious tone, "It's not impossible. Someone like you, Mother, I can consider it."
Princess Xinyang was having this conversation with Shangguan Qing with a very sad feeling, but she was successfully made to laugh and cry by his last sentence.
However, Shangguan Qing does indeed have plans to return to the Yan Kingdom.
Both sides are his mothers, and he's decided to live on one side for six months at a time, since he likes to travel around anyway.
At the end of all three letters, the same thing was mentioned: the identities of the two children.
She wasn't sure which of the two brothers would be willing to become a prince of Yan, or both of them, or neither of them would be willing.
She respects her two sons' choices and accepts either outcome with pleasure.
This was something Princess Xinyang had always been concerned about, so she hadn't yet told the Emperor of Zhao about the two children's true parentage.
Princess Xinyang said, "If your mother has no objection, then I have no objection either. Go and discuss it with your younger brother."
Shangguan Qing's eyes flickered: "Don't you...shouldn't you discuss this with my father?"
Princess Xinyang's face darkened instantly: "Which one of you is who? Aren't you both his sons? What has he to lose!"
Shangguan Qing touched his nose dejectedly.
He only mentioned it briefly, and his mother got furious.
It's been a day and a night, and his mother is still angry.
Perhaps it was hearing her father's name that made Xiao Yiyi suddenly think of him, because she started turning her head to look outside and even tried to sit up.
Princess Xinyang was filled with regret. Why bring up her father so late at night? Wasn't she supposed to be looking for him?
Little Yiyi, who needs her father to lull her to sleep every night, can become emotional at any time. Her little mouth puckered, and she burst into tears—
I'm having a bit of writer's block. Please check back this afternoon for the second update.
(End of this chapter)
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